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Reuters: "In the latest fallout from the writers strike, CBS has dropped about 20 projects that were in development, most of them dramas."
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Even though shows are second to marketing and sponsors for CBS this is surprising. This will definitely push the writers union to come to terms if the TV companies are getting rid of scripts. Hopefully both sides will see this as hurting TV and writing in general and both will settle the problems with the scripts so that both will be able to make money and not be independent of one another.
While I am sure many of the writers are upset by the loss of potential long-term jobs through these pilots, this really does help establish the significance of the writers within the modern entertainment industry. It seems to me that the Major Media Corporations are realizing that they do have a weakness, which is a very comforting thought. The AMPTP official website is filled with "statistics" about how greedy the writers are being for their own benefit. What I see is the tearing down of the major production companies in obtaining 80% of the royalties, while the other 20% goes to actors/crew/writers. Perhaps it is a good time for the scales to tip away from the producers?
the writers' strike is an "act of god"? where do these people come up with these things!
i'm finally seeing how the decline of mass media/tv is leading to a more user based video content source on the internet. with things like appleTV, tivo, and slingbox providing support for content that isn't provided by giant corporations now, people are taking advantage of the ease to which viewers can pull in media from elsewhere. The old TechTV channel which went bust a few years back is now alive again on the web. All the same great personalities, same great insight, only new names and new distribution methods.
In other news, CBS now has 20 other reality TV projects in the works.
The writers' strike came at a really unfortunate time: I thought reality TV might have died out by now, but unfortunately, now that there aren't any sitcoms or dramas to claim these timeslots, more terrible TV is here to stay.
That is, except for American Gladiators. What a quality show.
By cutting scripts CBS is really taking a hit to themselves in hopes of coming to terms with the writers strike. This type of move really hurts television by getting rid of the more popular programming for things that are much cheaper. Hopefully the strike will be resolved soon and the writers will be able to go back to work where television will return to its higher standard.
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Even though shows are second to marketing and sponsors for CBS this is surprising. This will definitely push the writers union to come to terms if the TV companies are getting rid of scripts. Hopefully both sides will see this as hurting TV and writing in general and both will settle the problems with the scripts so that both will be able to make money and not be independent of one another.
While I am sure many of the writers are upset by the loss of potential long-term jobs through these pilots, this really does help establish the significance of the writers within the modern entertainment industry. It seems to me that the Major Media Corporations are realizing that they do have a weakness, which is a very comforting thought. The AMPTP official website is filled with "statistics" about how greedy the writers are being for their own benefit. What I see is the tearing down of the major production companies in obtaining 80% of the royalties, while the other 20% goes to actors/crew/writers. Perhaps it is a good time for the scales to tip away from the producers?
the writers' strike is an "act of god"? where do these people come up with these things!
i'm finally seeing how the decline of mass media/tv is leading to a more user based video content source on the internet. with things like appleTV, tivo, and slingbox providing support for content that isn't provided by giant corporations now, people are taking advantage of the ease to which viewers can pull in media from elsewhere. The old TechTV channel which went bust a few years back is now alive again on the web. All the same great personalities, same great insight, only new names and new distribution methods.
In other news, CBS now has 20 other reality TV projects in the works.
The writers' strike came at a really unfortunate time: I thought reality TV might have died out by now, but unfortunately, now that there aren't any sitcoms or dramas to claim these timeslots, more terrible TV is here to stay.
That is, except for American Gladiators. What a quality show.
By cutting scripts CBS is really taking a hit to themselves in hopes of coming to terms with the writers strike. This type of move really hurts television by getting rid of the more popular programming for things that are much cheaper. Hopefully the strike will be resolved soon and the writers will be able to go back to work where television will return to its higher standard.
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